You would be amazed at how expensive it can be to change the locks in as institution like that. That is why it is not done more often. Depending on the type of lock, you could be talking about hundreds of dollars a door.

I work in a place that is supposed to be secure and some locks have not been changed since before I was born. My best guess would be that the prison only had a few doors that they were worried about and that is why the bill only came to 6,000 bucks. But it is hard say from the information provided.

RexRhinoMay 8, 2007 at 5:44 pm

This wouldn’t happen, if they would simply turn Manhattan Island into a self-contained prison complex, by tearing down the bridges and placing mines in the surounding bodies of water. Perhaps they could use Liberty Island as the prison headquarters? Weren’t they supposed to do that around 1997 or so?